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dynoxide: DNS rebinding and cross-origin CSRF via MCP HTTP transport — dynoxide-rs

Origin Validation Error

Summary

dynoxide's MCP HTTP transport was vulnerable to DNS rebinding via its transitive rmcp dependency, plus a related cross-origin CSRF gap. A malicious web page could make the user's browser send requests to a local dynoxide mcp --http or dynoxide serve --mcp server with a non-loopback Host header, which the server would then process. Affects 0.9.3 to 0.9.12. The stdio transport (dynoxide mcp without --http, which is the default) is not affected.

Impact

If a user is running dynoxide mcp --http (or dynoxide serve --mcp) on their machine and then visits a malicious web page, the attacker's JavaScript can call any MCP tool exposed by the running dynoxide instance.

Reachable tools include reads (get_item, query, scan, batch_get_item, describe_table, list_tables) and writes (put_item, update_item, delete_item, create_table, batch_write_item).

Any data in tables that the local dynoxide instance has access to can be read, modified, or destroyed.

Patches

dynoxide 0.9.13 closes both the named CVE and a related cross-origin CSRF gap:

DNS rebinding (the named CVE). rmcp is upgraded from 1.1.1 to 1.6.0. rmcp 1.4+ ships a default Host-header allowlist (["localhost", "127.0.0.1", "::1"]) which rejects requests carrying any other Host header with a 403.
Defence in depth. Explicit allowed_hosts and allowed_origins lists are now set on StreamableHttpServerConfig directly. The Host allowlist protects against a future rmcp default flip. The Origin allowlist closes a related cross-origin CSRF gap that the Host check alone does not address: a malicious page could fetch the loopback endpoint with mode: 'no-cors', the Host header would match (it's the literal loopback address the browser is connecting to), but the Origin header would otherwise have been unchecked.

Native MCP clients that don't send an Origin header (Claude Code, Cursor, the dynoxide CLI) are unaffected by the Origin check and continue to work.

Workarounds

Upgrade to dynoxide 0.9.13.
If upgrade is not immediately possible: do not run the MCP HTTP transport. Run dynoxide mcp (stdio, the default) instead of dynoxide mcp --http, and don't pass --mcp to dynoxide serve.

Resources

Upstream rmcp advisory: GHSA-89vp-x53w-74fx
Upstream CVE: CVE-2026-42559
dynoxide release: v0.9.13
MCP transport security guidance: <https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-11-25/basic/transports#security-warning>

Credits

Vulnerability identified via GitHub Dependabot alert on the transitive rmcp dependency.

Published: May 18, 2026
Updated: Jun 5, 2026
GHSA: GHSA-fvh2-gm75-j4j7
Severity: High
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: Unknown
Score:
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWEs:

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
dynoxide-rs	0.9.3	0.9.13
dynoxide	0.9.3	0.9.13

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Vulnerability (CVE) and why does it matter?

A security vulnerability is a weakness in software, hardware, or configuration that can be exploited to compromise confidentiality, integrity, or availability. Many vulnerabilities are tracked as CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures), which provide a standardized identifier so teams can coordinate patching, mitigation, and risk assessment across tools and vendors.

CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) estimates technical severity, but it doesn't automatically equal business risk. Prioritize using context like internet exposure, affected asset criticality, known exploitation (proof-of-concept or in-the-wild), and whether compensating controls exist. A "Medium" CVSS on an exposed, production system can be more urgent than a "Critical" on an isolated, non-production host.

A vulnerability is the underlying weakness. An exploit is the method or code used to take advantage of it. A zero-day is a vulnerability that is unknown to the vendor or has no publicly available fix when attackers begin using it. In practice, risk increases sharply when exploitation becomes reliable or widespread.

Recurring findings usually come from incomplete Asset Discovery, inconsistent patch management, inherited images, and configuration drift. In modern environments, you also need to watch the software supply chain: dependencies, containers, build pipelines, and third-party services can reintroduce the same weakness even after you patch a single host. Unknown or unmanaged assets (often called Shadow IT) are a common reason the same issues resurface.

Use a simple, repeatable triage model: focus first on externally exposed assets, high-value systems (identity, VPN, email, production), vulnerabilities with known exploits, and issues that enable remote code execution or privilege escalation. Then enforce patch SLAs and track progress using consistent metrics so remediation is steady, not reactive.

SynScan combines attack surface monitoring and continuous security auditing to keep your inventory current, flag high-impact vulnerabilities early, and help you turn raw findings into a practical remediation plan.